Venor, venâris, pen. prod. vernáti. Cic.To hurt.Apros venati.Virg.Canibus venari leporÊ. Vir. To hunt the hare with hounds.Venari pisces. Plin. To sishe. Venari, per translationem.To get a thing craftily: to seeke or prole after a thing.Venari laudem, gloriam, &c.Cic.To seeke to get praise.Amores venari.Ouid.Laudem modestiæ in aliqua re venari. Author ad Heren. Viduas venari frustis & pomis. Hor. With apples and fine presents to go about to get the fauout of olde widowes: to hunt after &c. Venari apros in mari.Plaut.Prouerbially, to loose ones labour. Studio venandi lassus.Ouid.Tempora longa ponere venando.Ouid.To bestowe much time in hunting. Venatum, venatu, Supina: vt Ire venatum.Virg.To go on hunting.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
vēnor, ātus (inf. parag. venarier, Lucr. 5, 1248; gen. plur. part. venantum, Verg. A. 9, 551 al.), 1, v. dep. n. and a., to hunt, chase (cf.: capto, aucupor). I.Neutr.: qui venari solent, Cic. Fam. 2, 11, 2: quo me in silvam venatum vocas?Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 82: venatum in nemus ire parant, Verg. A. 4, 117: canum alacritas in venando, Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 158: tigris venatur, Val. Fl. 1, 493: tu praecipue curvis venare theatris, Ov. A. A. 1, 89.—Prov.: stultitia est venatum ducere invitas canes, Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 82: piscari in aëre, Venari autem jaculo in medio mari, id. As. 1, 1, 87.—Part. as subst.: voces venantum,
of hunters
, Phaedr. 1, 12, 7.—II.Act.: i modo, venare leporem, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 81: canibus leporem, dammas, Verg. G. 3, 410: vespae muscas grandiores venantur, Plin. 11, 21, 24, 72: conchae hiantes venantur cibum, id. 32, 11, 54, 154: fugientes cum mari pisces, id. 16, 1, 1, 3.—B.Trop., to hunt or seek after, to pursue a thing (mostly poet.): laudem modestiae, Auct. Her. 4, 3, 5: suffragia ventosae plebis, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 37: viduas avaras frustis et pomis, id. ib. 1, 1, 78: viros oculis (filia), Phaedr. 4, 5, 4; cf.: amores, Ov. Med. Fac. 27.—Pass., Enn. Trag. 335; Prisc. p. 734 P.